Thread by @gregggonsalves

#PamelaPaul spends precious column space celebrating academic freedom from woke mobs on campuses BUT SAYS NOT ONE WORD about threats from the right. From DeSantis, other governors, Turning Point, Campus Reform. She is a right wing troll with the imprimatur of the @nytimes . 1/

The editors at @nytopinion think they are promoting ideological diversity, but they are being played. Here we have a redefinition of free speech and speech here is for me not for thee. 3/

They love the frisson of doing this in the week the @CollegeBoard eviscerated the AP African American Studies curriculum. So edgy we are at 620 8th Av. We can rub the noses of black Americans & others who care about diversity in education in stink of Paul’s execrable piece. 4/

And slowly but surely the @nytimes pushes the Overton window, the bounds of acceptability ever rightwards. At some point they simply become a willing accomplice in a political project despite their claims to neutrality. 5/

Hey it’s not like we’re in a crisis of American democracy, with the stench of authoritarianism rising from the GOP, with the full throated appeals to racism and homophobia that would make George Wallace, Jesse Helms blush coming from party leaders. 6/

And sure the editors of the paper will suggest that I represent a fringe assessment of what is happening but a lot harder to argue with the world’s premier scientific journal. 7/ science.org/content/blog-p…

Something is rotten at the @nytimes. They fancy themselves as sophisticated readers of politics, think they are above it all, in an arrogance that comes with fine educations, but are slipping slowly towards the right. 8/

And of course like the frogs in the pot of slowly boiling water they won’t notice it until things are too late and they’ll never never admit that they were wrong. 9/

And they think they can ride it all out and just have absolute disdain for those who are actually on the receiving end of the hate of the rising right in America. 10/